Named Core Dumped, other apps exit with signal 6

[Mark_Andrews at isc.org]

> Hello gurus,
> 
> Well, my named core dumped yesterday. I have today UPDATED FreeBSD so this ma
> y
> not be so useful but I hope it is.
> There was this message in /var/log/messages:
> 
> Sep 18 15:10:26 ns2 /kernel: pid 137 (named), uid 0: exited on signal 6 (core
>  dumped)

	Signal 6 is SIGABRT.  Named will have logged a message before killing
	itself.

	Mark
 
> 
> [root at ns2]#gdb /usr/sbin/named /etc/namedb/named.core
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> This GDB was configured as "i386-unknown-freebsd"...(no debugging symbols fou
> nd)...
> 
> warning: exec file is newer than core file.
> Core was generated by `named'.
> Program terminated with signal 6, Abort trap.
> #0  0x2811fb44 in ?? ()
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x2811fb44 in ?? ()
> #1  0x8076785 in getsockname ()
> #2  0x8076819 in getsockname ()
> #3  0x8051de4 in getsockname ()
> #4  0x8070db6 in getsockname ()
> #5  0x806de9c in getsockname ()
> #6  0x8061ce4 in getsockname ()
> #7  0x8061b44 in getsockname ()
> #8  0x8089497 in getgrouplist ()
> #9  0x8060ba3 in getsockname ()
> #10 0x804b575 in getsockname ()
> (gdb)
> 
> 
> Any advise as to what might have caused this??
> 
> I also have other applications exiting with signal 6 (if this is a better clu
> e)
> 
> 
> Sep 19 10:19:52 ns2 /kernel: pid 12634 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 6
> Sep 19 10:19:52 ns2 /kernel: pid 6823 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 6
> Sep 19 10:19:52 ns2 /kernel: pid 6805 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 6
> 
> 
> The OS is FreeBSD-4.7-PRERELEASE.
> 
> 
> -Wash
> 
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